Oiie Quotes & Sayings

If wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few, either by a feudal or a stock monopoly, it carries the power also; and a government becomes as certainly aristocratical, by a monopoly of wealth, as by a monopoly of arms. A minority, obtaining a majority of wealth or arms in any mode, becomes the government. — John Taylor

When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determined to tell the truth, represents, at best, a guess. There have been times in my life when I felt incredibly happy. Life was full. I seemed productive. Then I thought,"Am I really happy or am I merely masking a deep depression with frantic activity?" If I don't know such basic things about myself, who does? — Phyllis Rose

What's the most important quality a person could have, something that would benefit us all? — Sue Townsend

Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power. — Shoshana Zuboff

Accept that the connection that we have is real and goes beyond sexual. — Ella Dominguez

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. — Robert Motherwell

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

Are all the scientists here men, then?" "Scientists?" Oiie asked, incredulous. Pae coughed. "Scientists. Oh, yes, certainly, they're all men. There are some female teachers in the girls' schools, of course. But they never get past Certificate level." "Why not?" "Can't do the math; no head for abstract thought; don't belong. You know how it is, what women call thinking is done with the uterus! Of course, there's always a few exceptions, God-awful brainy women with vaginal atrophy." "You Odonians let women study science?" Oiie inquired. "Well, they are in the sciences, yes." "Not many, I hope." "Well, about half. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Nobody owns anything to rob ... As for violence ... Oiie, would you murder me, ordinarily? And if you felt like it, would a law against it stop you? Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order. — Ursula K. Le Guin

(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I could hear him swallowing hard, trying not to cry. Why is it that we always try to be brave at moments when bravery is futile? — Douglas Kennedy